WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton says it's time to delete Facebook

Pete Saunders |Thursday, March 22, 2018

Technology by Nozair Hanif Mirza | Published

However, his decision to speak out against the social network still came as a surprise, particularly given his close previous ties to the Menlo Park, California-based company. At present, Acton is running his own venture, named Signal.

Acton isn't the first person that expressed unease after cutting ties with Facebook. "Given your commitment at the start of the New Year to "fixing" Facebook, I hope that this representative will be you", Collins wrote to Zuckerberg according to the news report.

Facebook is going through a tough time, with one after another controversy hitting the social media giant, hard. "Looking forward to life's next adventure".

Dozens of toy suppliers object to Toys 'R' Us…
Larian has said that his group is also doing due diligence on the US stores, and hopes to keep some of them open. According to Bloomberg , Amazon in 2015 considered making an offer for some RadioShack locations but did not.

Data of some 50 million Facebook users, mainly in the U.S., was harvested without their explicit consent via their friend networks.

The tweet follows a data privacy scandal involving Facebook and Trump-linked data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, in which the firm harvested and misused data on 50 million Facebook users. Cross-platform user info mining may be one of those returns, but Europe recently banned it, and Facebook itself is in trouble as one of Trump's campaign consulting firms fetched tens of millions of user profiles from it under false pretenses.

Facebookannounced two days ago it had hired a digital forensics firm to investigate the data leak. The blog further says, approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app and in doing so, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city set on their profile.

This points to a major loophole in Facebook's API, which allows third-party developers to collect data not just from the users of the Facebook app, but also from that user's friends network on the social media platform.

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